Simple update for those interested. Looks like some are taking a similar idea to market, as it were, in Honduras to fight dengue.
The mosquitoes Enriquez unleashed in his El Manchen neighborhood — an area rife with dengue — were bred by scientists to carry bacteria called Wolbachia that interrupt transmission of the disease. When these mosquitoes reproduce, they pass the bacteria to their offspring, reducing future outbreaks.
Simple update for those interested. Looks like some are taking a similar idea to market, as it were, in Honduras to fight dengue.